Cable News Trending Topics for 2015-04-08
The shooting of Walter Scott in South Carolina completely dominated the conversation on Cable News Twitter yesterday. It was interesting to see the divergence in the networks: while Fox News had more mentions overall, CNN had more people tweeting.
Raw data: 2015-04-08-TagStats.csv and 2015-04-08-WordStats.csv
Top Shows for the day:
| Category | Mentions | Show |
| Most Mentions During Hour | 3615 | Fox News: The Kelly File |
| Most Mentions During Day | 12146 | CNN: Anderson Cooper 360 |
Overall ratings by network
| Network | Tweet Count | Unique Tweeters | Reach | Male | Female |
| Fox News | 78118 | 31636 | 399256194 | 60 % | 40 % |
| CNN | 69399 | 48117 | 980596557 | 53 % | 47 % |
| MSNBC | 29000 | 13153 | 129449445 | 51 % | 49 % |
| HLN | 1654 | 947 | 19579883 | 44 % | 56 % |
Most popular hashtags and words
| Word or Hashtag | Count |
| #walterscott | 18681 |
| #wakeupamerica | 17583 |
| death | 14438 |
| guilty | 12134 |
| tsarnaev | 11240 |
| #tcot | 11073 |
| dzhokhar | 10406 |
| video | 10030 |
| shooting | 9839 |
| obama | 9214 |
Tag Cloud across all shows
| #2a #5things #ac360 #amirhekmati #amnesty #articlev #ballparkfood #benghazi #bergdahl #biggov #blacklivesmatter #bostonbomber #bostonbombing #breaking #c2gthr #ccot #celebrityawards2015 #christianbashing #christians #climatechange #cnn #commoncore #constitution #cosproject #disclosure #edshow #ferguson #fnpolitics #foxnews #freeamirnow #freedom #glabberchallenge #gop #gottadoit #gunsense #hannity #hardball #humpday #i #inners #iran #irandeal #irantalks #isis #jilltahmooressi #kellyfile #kurtcobain #lastword #lnyhbt #maddow #makedclisten #michaelbrown #michaelslager #morningjoe #msnbc #newbethvideo #newday #news #nonucleariran #notsolovingmuslims #nra #obama #obamacare #obamadestroyingamerica #outnumbered #p2 #pjnet #profligatespending #randpaul #redeye #rednationrising #religionofpeace #religiousfreedom #replacewriterwithplumber #rt #sisterpatriots #slager #southcarolina #standwithrand #stophillary2016 #stophr5 #stopislam #tcot #teamedshow #teaparty #tedcruz #tedcruz2016 #tgdn #thefive #time100 #tlot #tsarnaev #uk #uniteblue #us #veterans #wakeupam #wakeupamerica #walterscott #ycot |
Word Cloud across all shows
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